1/29/10 - 2/2/10

1. Short Story (10)
- "The Repairer of Reputations" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Mask" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Court of the Dragon" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Yellow Sign" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Demoiselle D'Ys" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Prophets' Paradise" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of the Four Winds" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of the First Shell" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of Our Lady of the Fields" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "Rue Barree" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

2. Essay (5)
- "Introduction" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 1: The Rebel" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 2: Metaphysical Rebellion (intro)" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 2: Metaphysical Rebellion; The Sons of Cain" from Camus's The Rebel
- Ethical Intuitionism Chapter 3 "Subjectivism" by Michael Huemer

8. Read The King in Yellow! Done!

14. Wrote a 3 page essay on Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1) (actually before these dates)

35. Wrote the 22nd page

40. Food (2) (actually before these dates)
- Made Crepes (they turned out poorly in texture, but delicious in taste.)
- Made awesome pasta full of onion, garlic, tomato and other veggies! Woo!

60. Have read before bed for 2 days in a row

74. Have read upon waking for 7 days in a row!!!

Master List

I'll give this a proper introduction later! But for now, i will say: I am doing 101 things in 1001 days and this is the list! Some of them are iffy, unmeasurable, so those ones are subject to change. Like "Keep a Notebooks like diary" -- that could be reinterpreted. They'll all retain their meaning though! I'm working on making progress pages for the reading & writing ones.

In Progress
Completed

Lit

1. Read 1001 short stories (26/1001)
2. Read 1001 Non-Fiction Essays/Chapters (37/1001)
3. read 3003 poems (48/3003)
4. Read 143 Books (3/143)
5. Read an Ayn Rand book
6. Read Ulysses
7. Read The Oddessy, The Iliad, The Aenid, and The Metamorphoses
8. Read The King In Yellow
9. Finish the Dark Tower series
10. read the dictionary
11. Memorize Five poems (0/5)
12. Write 143 very-short-stories (flash fiction; less-than 1000 words) (0/143)
13. Write 143 poems (1/143)
14. Write 143 small essays (2/143)
15. Write 36 short stories (includes novelettes; 36 pieces of 1000-20000 words) (0/36)
16. Write an erotic piece
17. Draft a real novel
18. Write an Epic Poem
19. Win a NaNo
20. Write a play
21. Finish CYOD
22. Write the Aristotle Lit Crit essay
23. Write an essay on master-slave sexual relations in Lord of the Rings
24. Get a story published
25. Finish the Sophia story
26. Plan out Epic Maromi Fic
27. Plan out Dash Panic's 8 lives
28. Replan the Zombie Story
29. Salvage elements of Cosmic Bubble piece by piece
30. Figure out (and act on) what to do with Solasis
31. Find a place for Sappy & Co.
32. Get some sort of columnist or reviewer job
33. "Beta" (or otherwise edit) 1001 works by others (Essays & Fanfic included) (0/1001)
34. Thoroughly edit from what I've written: 72 poems, 72 flash fictions, 72 small essays, 18 short stories, and the real novel I will have written. (0/72, 0/72, 0/72, 0/18)

Personal

35. Fill up a Composition notebook with notes & story fragments, a-la Camus's Carnets (22/200 pages)
36. Learn to Drive
37. Visit England
38. Lose Man-Boobs
39. Break Caffeine Addiction
40. Make 143 distinct dishes which I have not made before (2/143)
41. Learn Set Theory
42. Get a Physical
43. Play "Lost: The (Board) Game"
44. Learn to Salsa
45. Learn to Swing
46. Develop Rhythm
47. Complete the "Prometheus Rising" activities
48. Get a tattoo
49. Be comfortable when alone
50. Develop a personal healthish diet
51. Learn to use a long range weapon
52. Learn to use a close range weapon
53. Balance out sleep schedule
54. Make a personal and flexible schedule and keep to it
55. Explain thoroughly why death is not inherently bad
56. Attempt that crazy sleep cycle thing
57. Learn how computers work
58. Care for a houseplant
59. Floss twice a day every day for 30 days
60. Read before bed for twenty minutes every day for 30 days (2/30)
61. Get a pet
62. See the Northern Lights
63. Attend a convention of any variety which interests me.
64. Attend a murder mystery
65. Spend one week not playing video games when I have the time and means (0/7)
66. Spend one week not watching any TV (except for new Lost if that is a relevant factor) when I have the time and means. (0/7)
67. Stand on a street corner and preach something
68. Build a fort in the living room
69. Go to the ocean again
70. Ask a girl out for drinks (when it is permissible to do so, and if still in an open relationship, with full honesty. If not in an exclusive relationship, this is not permissible.)
71. Learn to ride a bike
72. Clean my room, then reclean it once a week for at least a month. (0/4)
73. Win a contest
74. Read upon waking up every day for 30 days (7/30)

Financial

75. Get out of Credit Debt
76. Save up $1000
77. Construct a budget, flexible, and keep to it
78. Sell Plasma

Gamey

79. Learn to play Poker or Blackjack
80. Play/Read/Watch ALL the stories of the first .hack series
81. Finish Zork
82. Finish Blue Lacuna
83. Play a tabletop rpg again
84. Actually Finish a Final Fantasy game
85. Get 100% Completion in three video games where that is a complicated & Rewarding Process (0/3)
86. Get 100% Completion in five online games (0/5)
87. Write a text game

Spiritual

88. Read the Baghvad Gita
89. Read the Book of Mormon
90. Read the Koran
91. Read the Apocrypha
92. Read the Tao Teh Ching
93. Read Time Cube (carefully)
94. Write my Discordian Gospel
95. Start meditating
96. Read the Bible

Misc.

97. Donate Blood
98. Participate in a study
99. Write a letter to an online friend!
100. Ace the GRE
101. Donate 5 dollars to a charity for every incomplete item!

Read Essays List

37/1001

12/31/2009 (2)
From Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Envers et L'Endroit
-Preface
-"Irony"
1/1/2010 (2)
- "Between Yes and No"
-"Death in the Soul"
1/2/2010 (1)
"Love of Life"
1/3/2010 (1)
"The Wrong Side and the Right Side"
1/4/2010 (1)
From Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces
- "Nuptials at Tipasa"
1/5/2010 (1)
"The Wind at Djemila"
1/6/2010 (1)
"Summer in Algiers"
1/7/2010 (1)
"The Desert"
1/9/2010 (2)
"The Minotaur, or Stopping in Oran"
"The Almond Trees"
1/10/2010 (1)
"Prometheus in the Underworld"
1/11/2010 (1)
- "A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past"
1/12/2010 (3)
Not by Camus:
- Epistemology: Contemporary Readings - Part III (The Nature and Scope of Justification and Knowledge), Ch 8 (The Analysis of Knowledge), Introduction (by Michael Huemer)
- Ethical Intuitionism - Introduction, by Michael Huemer
- "Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure" by A.J. Ayer
1/13/2010 (2)
- "Helen's Exile" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Knowledge and Grounds: A Comment on Mr. Gettier's Paper" by Michael Clark
1/14/2010 - 1/28/2010 (13)
- "The Enigma" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Return to Tipasa" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Sea Close By" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Rains of New York" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays
- "A Causal Theory of Knowing" by Alvin Goldman
- "Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief" by Keith Lehrer and Thomas Paxson
- "Knowledge" by Robert Nozick
- "Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions" by Keith DeRose
- Ethical Intuitionism Chapter 2 "Non-Cognitivism" by Michael Huemer
- "Toward a Regional Cosmopolitanism: The CAse of Mulk Raj Anand" by Jessica Berman
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Introduction
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Chapter 1: "Heaven and God's Goodness"
- "The Thought: A Logical Inquiry" by Gottlieb Frege (who is a badass)
1/29/2010 (5)
- "Introduction" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 1: The Rebel" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 2: Metaphysical Rebellion (intro)" from Camus's The Rebel
- "Chapter 2: Metaphysical Rebellion; The Sons of Cain" from Camus's The Rebel
- Ethical Intuitionism Chapter 3 "Subjectivism" by Michael Huemer

Read Short Stories List

26/1001

12/29/2009 (1)
"Bad Matter" by Alexandra Duncan (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
12/30/2009 (1)
"Farewell Atlantis" by Terry Bisson (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/1/2010 (2)
"Illusions of Tranquillity" by Brendan DuBois (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
"The Blight Family Singers" by Kit Reed (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/2/2010 (1)
"The Economy of Vacuum" by Sarah Thomas (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009) (It made me cry)
1/3/2010 (1)
- "Iris" by Nancy Springer (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/4/2010 (1)
- "The Man Who Did Something About It" by Harvey Jacobs (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/5/2010 (1)
- "Dragon's Teeth" by Alex Irvine (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/6/2010 (1)
- "Hell of a Fix" by Matthew Hughes (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/7/2010 (1)
- "Inside Time" by Tim Sullivan (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
1/9/2010 (2)
- "I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said" by Richard Bowes (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
- "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol
1/10/2010 (1)
- "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol
1/11/2010 (1)
- "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
1/14/2010-1/29/2010 (2)
- "How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol
- "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" by Nikolai Gogol
1/29/2010 - 2/2/2010 (10)
- "The Repairer of Reputations" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Mask" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Court of the Dragon" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Yellow Sign" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Demoiselle D'Ys" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Prophets' Paradise" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of the Four Winds" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of the First Shell" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "The Street of Our Lady of the Fields" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- "Rue Barree" from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

Written Essays list

2/143

1/4/2010
"Essay of Myself"
1/someting/2010
Essay on Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable

Month in Review

By my calculations, I should have... 3.1278.... about 3 items done. I have 0 done. Yeah.

I should have 31 stories; I have 16. I need to read 15 more.

I should have read 31 essays; I have read 32. Thanks to school, I am ahead on these, but I'm still attempting to read one a day. I 'll be done with this one early, if all goes well.

I should have read 93 poems; I have read 48. I need 45 more. I've somehow "scheduled" myself to read 58 in my agenda. I'm sure there's a reason for that, so I'm sticking with it.

I should have written 4 very short stories; I've written none.

I should have written 4 poems; I've written 1. Three behind.

I should have written 4 essays; I've written... Oh, actually, 2. I need to add that one in. I Need 2 more.

I should've written 1 short story; I've made no effort on that.

By my calculations, I should've written 6.2 pages in my "notebook"; I'm about to start the 19th page. So that's good.

I should have made 4 new dishes; I made 2, which Ineed to add in. I'll do that when I do the essay.

Things I will force myself to do this month:

Read upon waking every day
Floss twice a day every day
Finish the Baghvad Gita and the King in Yellow
I need 2 more for this month, but I dont' knwo which ones to pick.

I'm behind, but not too far behind.

1/14/10-1/28/10

Kept running out of time to update this...

1. Short Story (2)
- "How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol
- "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (13)
- "The Enigma" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Return to Tipasa" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Sea Close By" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Rains of New York" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays
- "A Causal Theory of Knowing" by Alvin Goldman
- "Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief" by Keith Lehrer and Thomas Paxson
- "Knowledge" by Robert Nozick
- "Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions" by Keith DeRose
- Ethical Intuitionism Chapter 2 "Non-Cognitivism" by Michael Huemer
- "Toward a Regional Cosmopolitanism: The CAse of Mulk Raj Anand" by Jessica Berman
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Introduction
- Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls - Chapter 1: "Heaven and God's Goodness"
- "The Thought: A Logical Inquiry" by Gottlieb Frege (who is a badass)

4. Books (2)
- Finished Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (for class)
- Read Thud! by Terry Pratchett

8. Checked out The King in Yellow

35. 18 pages

74. Have been reading every day upon waking for 3 days

85. 28.2% completion in GT3

88. Started the Baghvad Gita

1/13/10

1. Short Story (0)
- Began "How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" by Nikolai Gogol (25/50 pages)

2. Essay (2)
- "Helen's Exile" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "Knowledge and Grounds: A Comment on Mr. Gettier's Paper" by Michael Clark


4. Books
-Continued Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (86/157) (for class)

1/12/10

2. Essay (3)
- Epistemology: Contemporary Readings - Part III (The Nature and Scope of Justification and Knowledge), Ch 8 (The Analysis of Knowledge), Introduction (by Michael Huemer)
- Ethical Intuitionism - Introduction, by Michael Huemer
- "Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure" by A.J. Ayer


3. Poems (6)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Bodhidharma"
- "Rain"
- "Christmas Sparrow"
- "The Stare"
- "Surprise"
- "Poetry"

4. Books
-Continued Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (66/157) (for class)

1/11/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (1)
- "A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

1/10/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (1)
- "Prometheus in the Underworld" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

3. Poems (4)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Elk River Falls"
- "Earth"
- "Colorado"
- "Lying in Bed in the Dark, I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona"

4. Books
-Began Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (31/157) (for class)

75. Job interview at Tee & Cakes; got an application for Flatiron Coffee

1/9/10

1. Short Story (2)
- "I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said" by Richard Bowes (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)
- "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol

2. Essay (2)
- "The Minotaur, or Stopping in Oran" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete
- "The Almond Trees" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Ete

3. Poems (6)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "To My Patron"
- "Writing in the Afterlife"
- "The Parade"
- "The Only Day in Existence"
- "No Time"
- "Balsa"

4. Books
-Continued The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (876/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)
-Began Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (31/157) (for class)

35. Wrote 2 more pages in Notebook

1/7/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "Inside Time" by Tim Sullivan (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

2. Essay (1)
- "The Desert" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces

3. Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Death in New Orleans, a Romance"
- "Air Piano"
- "Drawing"

4. Books
-Started The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (826/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)

53. Woke up at 10; tried to go to bed at midnight, ended up at 4.

60. Failed!

74. Failed the next day, so.

84. Got to the end of FH in FFVIII

1/6/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "Hell of a Fix" by Matthew Hughes (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

2. Essay (1)
- "Summer in Algiers" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces

3. Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa"
- "Bermuda"
- "Ignorance"

4. Books (1)
-Started The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (790/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)

53. Woke up at 7; tried to go to bed at midnight, ended up at 1:30.

60. Read before bed (4/30)

74. Read upon waking (2/30)

75. Dropped off resume at several bookstores and coffee shops; Actually applied for a job at one.

84. Beat NORG in FFVIII

98. Inquired into a sleep study (found out I wasn't eligible for it afterwards)

1/5/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "Dragon's Teeth" by Alex Irvine (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

2. Essay (1)
- "The Wind at Djemila" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces

3. Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "The Listener"
- "The Literary Life"
- "The Great Walter Pater"

4. Books (1)
-Started The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (741/1112) (page numbers are continuous with the whole trilogy)

53. Woke up at 8; tried to go to bed at midnight, ended up at 2.

60. Read before bed (3/30)

74. Read upon waking (1/30)

75. Rebuilt resume; found social security card; emailed two people about jobs; found out about a job fair at Tee & Cakes on Sunday

77. Saved more receipts

84. Got to the missile thingy in FFVIII

1/4/10

1. Short Story (1)
- "The Man Who Did Something About It" by Harvey Jacobs (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

2. Essay (1)
- "Nuptials at Tipasa" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from Noces

3. Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Nine Horses"
- "Litany"
- "The Return of the Key" (pretty interesting!)

4. Books (1)
-Finished Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

14. Drafted an essay titled "Essay of Myself" (1)

35. Wrote 5 pages in notebook

60. Read before bed (2/30)

72. Put Away Laundry

75. Asked at two places about hiring

77. Started entering my receipts into a table to track my expenses

84. Finished Disc 1 of FFVIII

1/3/10

Short Story (1)
- "Iris" by Nancy Springer (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009)

Essay (1)
- "The Wrong Side and the Right Side" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Envers et L'Endroit

Poems (3)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Albany"
- "Study in Orange and White"
- "Rooms"

Other
-60. Read before bed (1/30)
-72. Did and Folded all laundry
-84. Played more FFVIII

1/2/10

Short Story (1)
- "The Economy of Vacuum" by Sarah Thomas (in Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009) (It made me cry)

Essay (1)
- "Love of Life" from Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Envers et L'Endroit

Poems (10)
From Nine Horses by Billy Collins
- "Languor"
- "Obituaries" (reminded me of a Lou Reed song, from Magic & Loss)
- "Today"
- "Ave Atque Vale"
- "Roadside Flowers"
- "As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse"
- "Trompe L'Oeil" (I LOVED THIS ONE)
- "Creatures" (This one confused me)
- "Tipping Point" (I loved this one too!)
- "Birthday"

Other
-77. Went shopping; kept the receipts.
-84. Started FF8 again
-85. 13.7% completion in Gran Turismo 3
-Modified several entries so that they work

1/1/10

Read Essays (2)
From Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Envers et L'Endroit
- "Between Yes and No"
-"Death in the Soul"

Read Short Stories (2)
from Fantasy&ScienceFiction December
- "Illusions of Tranquillity" by Brendan DuBois
- "The Blight Family Singers" by Kit Reed (I can't say for sure whether this was good or not, but I recommend reading it.)

Other
- Got 10.3% completion in Gran Turismo 3 (It's winter break, okay?!)

12/31/09

Read Essays (2)
From Camus's Lyrical and Critical Essays, from L'Envers et L'Endroit
-Preface
-"Irony"

Other
-A lot of Gran Turismo 3; (it's one of my video games for # 86)